If the Addison High School boys basketball team was worried about a letdown after a big conference win last week, they didn’t have to worry too long.

The Panthers jumped all over Cascades Conference foe East Jackson from the opening tip and cruised to a 72-40 victory over the visiting Trojans Thursday night.

Addison scored the first 10 points of the game and led 23-4 after just one quarter.

“It was good for us to come out of the gates,” coach Andrew Kubish said. “We came off a big game against Napoleon last Thursday, and we wanted to make sure we came out with the same kind of intensity. We stress getting up for every game that way.”

Addison’s early defensive intensity forced East Jackson into seven turnovers in the first quarter, and the Trojans seemed to pay for every single one of them. Often the beneficiary on the offensive end of the floor was 6-foot-11 center Luke Meyer, who delighted the crowd with a few early dunks in transition.

“If we get out and run, we’re a much better team,” Kubish said. “Especially when Luke’s the one finishing on the end of those.

"We are also pretty long, so we get our hands in a lot of passing lanes and we cause a lot of deflections.”

Meyer finished with 20 points, 14 of which came in the first quarter. He also added eight rebounds.

East Jackson was able to chip a couple of points off the Addison lead in the second quarter, but any thoughts of a comeback were immediately extinguished when the Panthers opened the second half with a 10-2 run.

An East Jackson timeout did nothing to quell the Panthers’ momentum, as Addison followed it with another 10-2 run and opened up a 33-point advantage with 2:21 remaining in the third quarter.

Tyler Corbin acted as somewhat of a closer for the Panthers, scoring 15 of his 18 points in the second half.

“Tyler got hot in the second half and hit quite a few of those mid-range jumpers when he was running the point for us,” Kubish said. “It was good to see him knock down that many jumpers and have a game like he did.”